Never before has so little power been made from so much displacement! (Page 15 of 57)

we have ignition! OK, maybe not, but I have an ignition system.

here's the coil pack bracket:

and here it is installed with all the custom plug wires made:

No kidding... In the time it took me to change the brakes and do a little wiring and graphics, he puts a freaking airplane engine in an MR2! Makes me want to give up now!

Thanks guys, it's been a lot of work but seeing the feedback here has been fantastic.

I sat down and made a tally of the todo list as it currently stands. This is more for me than anyone else but I figured some would like to see it so here it is:

1)    throttle bodies
   a.    order 5th throttle body
   b.    get larger injectors (current injectors are 235cc, should be good for about 200HP but I’d like to have more headroom)
   c.    make fuel line feed connectors
   d.    mount on motor (flanges should be back from waterjet in a few days)
   e.    get filters (buy some cheap foamies or something)
2)    exhaust
   a.    flanges should arrive from waterjet in a few days.
   b.    Exhaust pipe is already here, weld it up after the intakes are in place
   c.    Route to avoid everything, pray that it’s quiet enough with strait pipes (this is probably seriously wishfull thinking)
   d.    Paint with high temp paint so it doesn’t turn to rusty crap in a second flat.
3)    Oil reservoir
   a.    Nothing done on this yet. I need to make an approximately 5gal oil reservoir for the frunk.
   b.    Place fins on it or something to cool the oil
4)    Find a fan to move air across the motor.
   a.    LOTS OF AIR!
   b.    This needs to be planned SOON!
5)    Shift linkage
   a.    Order push/pull cables
   b.    Make brackets
6)    Megasquirt
   a.    Crank trigger wheel
   b.    Cam/crank sensor mount (sensor already bought)
   c.    Wiring harness (a whole lot of it)
   d.    The computer is already ordered and should be here within a week.
   e.    Figure out how to tune megasquirt ?
7)    Transfer case
   a.    Make a flange for the angry hamster box to the small sprocket
   b.    Make a flange for the prop-flange to large sprocket
   c.    Wait for new case back half to come from CNC shop.
   d.    Assemble everything
8)    Clutch
   a.    get custom clutch disk to fit 93 spline on ’08 wrx flywheel/pressure plate.
9)    Safety (last 15days)
   a.    Cage
   b.    Seat
   c.    Brake light
   d.    Extinguisher

Over the weeknights this week I hope to achieve the following:
1) Get all the cam/crank wheels/sensors worked out and finished. (this may not be possible since the crank wheel may not arrive till very late into the week)
2) mount throttle bodies & all throttle linkage.
3) make exhaust pipes.

Yeah, I think that’s it for now.

step 6 E will be Not fun..

Do you have any idea on the injectors you'd like to have?  Let me know...I may have some that will fit your needs.

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HA!!!  I get it!

Are you able to mount a fan on the small sprocket? If you can make something spin at ~3-6000RPM, as opposed to 2000, then you MUST build a fan car. Biela makes a 28-inch 4-blade CF prop for under $200 (double it up if you want 8 blades). Make a proper shroud, build a really low skirt around the car, and bring a g-suit.

The props are soft and light enough that blade loss won't kill anyone - any metal shroud should be able to stop a rogue blade or two. Plus, it'll sound way cool.

BTW, what version of MS did you get? The basic one doesn't support more than one coil output (as in, needs a distributor). If yours has 8-channel sequential ignition/injection, then you're good. Otherwise, you need to build a transistorized "distributor" (I made an optical one once, worked OK but then I discovered EDIS). Or get a proper upgrade card.

I think that's the backup ignition, for safety. Originally it had two magneto ignition circuits; if one fails, you can still fly on the second one.

My Stanza uses 2 plugs per cylinder, too, but that's because they couldn't design a combustion chamber worth a damn.

Common on piston aircraft engines.   When your ignition system dies, you can't just pull over to the side of the road.     hence the redundant system.

I'm not sure steam added to the smoke and oil emissions will help his black flag count at all....

I've got a fuzzy logic mister controller that runs of injector pulse width and temp sensors... just the ticket for this

I saw someone else touch on it but I would second the idea of putting the fan behind the motor and making it a bottom breather and letting it suck air from under the bottom of the car.

It could make some sticktion if you had it all set up right but at the very least it cools the motor and gets rid of negative airflow issues.

Maybe you can have it set up as a full on anti-hovercraft for the second race at ginger.